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Is a voluntary circumambulation (tawaf al-tatawwu’) a substitute for the umrah circumambulation (tawaf al-umrah), and what is incumbent upon someone from whom secretions invalidating ablution (wudu’) are emitted during the circumambulation?

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Scholars have differed regarding the ruling on purity for circumambulation (Tawaf). The majority of them are of the view that it is a condition for the validity of Tawaf, while some hold that it is only a Sunnah, and that the Tawaf of one who is in a state of minor ritual impurity is valid. This is the choice of Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah and the preferred opinion of العلامة Ibn Uthaymeen. Based on this, your 'Umrah is valid, and nothing is required of you, and your second Tawaf is supererogatory.

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